Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 / FAQ

Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 is powerful yet easy-to-use photo editing software that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos and create personalized photo keepsakes.

Photoshop Elements 11 is great for anyone who takes pictures to remember important life events — including family milestones, celebrations with friends, travel experiences, and everyday moments. It’s also ideal for people who want to enhance their photos and enjoy expressing themselves creatively through photography. With Photoshop Elements, you can live in the moment knowing that you can turn your everyday shots into sensational photos.

With Photoshop Elements, you can organize, edit, create, and share your digital photos. With Adobe Premiere Elements software, you can organize your video clips and create and share home movies. Both products offer a powerful, easy-to-use Organizer — the hub of your photo and video experience — to keep all your media in one place for quick access and viewing. The two products are offered together as Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 & Adobe Premiere Elements 11 software.

Photoshop Elements is designed for people who are just getting started with digital photo editing and want an easy way to organize, enhance, and share their photos. Photoshop is the professional standard for creating powerful images, and Photoshop Extended delivers everything in Photoshop as well as tools for creating and editing 3D* images and performing image analysis. Photoshop Lightroom addresses the workflow needs of professional and serious amateur photographers, enabling them to import, process, organize, and showcase large volumes of digital photographs.

Photoshop Elements 11 offers a more friendly and intuitive environment with Quick, Guided, and Expert editing modes; easier ways to organize photos; new Guided Edits for creating tilt-shift, vignette, high-key, and low-key photography effects; filters that turn photos into stunning illustrations; and much more.

Unlike most free photo editors, which offer a limited set of editing options, Photoshop Elements 11 offers unlimited creative possibilities for artistically enhancing photos, combining photos into multilayered compositions, creating layouts for amazing photo keepsakes like photo books and scrapbook pages, and much more. And with Photoshop Elements 11, you can explore new photo looks and projects at your own pace thanks to Quick, Guided, and Expert editing modes.

Yes, you are eligible for upgrade pricing if you are a licensed user of any previous version of Photoshop Elements software.

If you shoot digital videos as well as photos, consider buying Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 & Adobe Premiere Elements 11. For a great value, the software enables you to make your memories shine whether they’re captured on video or in photos, and you can use photos and videos together in creative ways, too.

For licensing questions, visit the Adobe Volume Licensing page or contact your local Adobe sales representative.

If you own an iPhone or iPad, Revel is a great solution for viewing your Elements 11 photos on those devices. You can export photos from your Elements 11 Organizer to Revel and see them on your iPhone or iPad. Conversely, you can export the photos you take with your iPhone or iPad from your Revel photo library to your desktop through the Elements 11 Organizer. Revel currently supports iPads and iPhones. Learn more about Revel at AdobeRevel.com.

The Mac App Store version of Photoshop Elements 11 only includes editing features, and it does not include the Elements Organizer. To compare the two products, see this comparison chart.  In addition, the Mac App Store version is available only in English, French, German, and Japanese.

The Mac App Store version of Adobe Premiere Elements 11 only includes editing features, and it does not include the Elements Organizer. To compare the two products, see this comparison chart.  In addition, the Mac App Store version is available only in English, French, German, and Japanese.

Yes. To help you evaluate Adobe's consumer photo and video editing software for upgrade or purchase, we offer "try and buy" versions of Photoshop Elements 11 and Adobe Premiere Elements 11 in many of the languages in which we ship.

These trial versions are fully functional, so every feature and aspect of the product is available for you to test-drive. Product trials can easily be converted for unrestricted use without the necessity to reinstall the software in most cases.

The trial period begins on the first day that you launch the software and continues for 30 days (a counter appears each time you launch to help you track the elapsed time). When the trial expires, you must purchase the software to continue using it.

Trials are available now. Choose your trial.

Unfortunately, you may not extend a trial version once it expires at the end of 30 days, nor can you install another copy of the same trial version onto the same computer to try again.

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Yes. If you have opted to receive email communications from Adobe, for some product trials you may receive a series of communications with helpful resources and tips to get the most from your trial. There are also additional free resources available to you:

• Check out Adobe TV, your online source for expert insight and inspiration. Feed your passion for Adobe products with easy-to-follow tutorials and innovative techniques to get you started.
• Visit the Help and Support pages for video tutorials and more: Adobe Photoshop Elements | Adobe Premiere Elements.
• Visit the Photoshop Elements User Learning Center from one of our partners, Photoshop Elements Techniques magazine.

Adobe Technical Support will help you install or troubleshoot an installation issue with a trial version of Adobe products. Additional phone and web support is available only for registered users of purchased software. For additional help, we recommend the following free options:

Search Adobe Community Help to find the focused answers you need — fast. Searchable content includes the in-depth product-specific Help that Adobe has always delivered, plus additional Adobe and third-party content chosen by experts at Adobe and in the design and production communities. Use the search bar within your trial software, or simply choose Help > [Product name].

If you already have a trial version of Photoshop Elements 11 or Adobe Premiere Elements 11 installed on your computer, you can continue using the software without interruption by purchasing the product for unrestricted use. Simply select Download from the Delivery Method pull-down menu on the Adobe Store page. When your purchase is complete, you'll receive a product serial number via email that allows you to easily convert your trial version without reinstalling the software. Enter the serial number in the Software Setup screen (shown below) within your trial product and follow the prompts to complete the process.

If you are a trial user of an earlier version of Elements software and are ready to purchase the product, you must purchase and install the latest version — Photoshop Elements 11, Adobe Premiere Elements 11, or the Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 & Adobe Premiere Elements 11 bundle. It is not possible to convert your Elements 10 or earlier trial to the latest version. Note that the organization and tagging you have done in your trial can be converted to the latest version.

Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements offer the option to install the application in any one of many languages available.

If you would prefer to install a purchased product in a language other than the language you installed during your trial period, you can simply go back to the original installer (whether DVD or Electronic Software Delivery), install the correct language, and then enter your serial number.

To uninstall your trial version, close any open Adobe software on your computer and do the following:

• In Windows®, open the Windows Control Panel and double-click Add or Remove Programs. Select the product that you want to uninstall, click Change/Remove, and then follow the onscreen instructions.
• In Mac OS, double-click the product installer in Applications\Utilities\Adobe Installers. Authenticate as an administrator, select Uninstall Components, and then follow the onscreen instructions.

Yes, if you choose the download option when converting a trial to a purchased version, we highly recommend making a backup copy and keeping it together with the serial number. That way, if you get a new computer or have to rebuild an existing one, you have everything you need to efficiently reinstall your Adobe software. (Alternatively, follow the instructions in the email receipt to log in and download your software for up to three years after you purchase.) If you had the software shipped from Adobe or a reseller at purchase, that package serves as your backup version.